Carving a pumpkin on dry land is apparently too easy. So, for the 31st year, Extreme Sports Scuba divers grabbed their pumpkins, carving knives, dive gear and questionable artistic abilities and headed to Beaver Lake for the Annual Underwater Pumpkin Carving. On Sunday, October 4, 15 contestants met at Indian Creek Campground to find out
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It’s more than skills A great diving instructor is about much more than teaching skills and handing someone a certification card. A certification tells you that a diver has completed the requirements of a course. It does not necessarily tell you that they are confident, comfortable, or truly understand what they are doing underwater. That
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The Skills That Keep You Safe on Every Dive Scuba diving is an activity built on freedom, exploration, and problem solving. While many divers are introduced to the sport through the buddy system, every diver eventually learns an important truth. No matter how good your buddy is, the most important diver on every dive is
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Facebook Instagram Youtube introduction When we take on a sport like SCUBA diving, we soon may find it is not a ‘cheap’ hobby. While this may be true, it does not have to necessarily be an expensive hobby either. For some people, renting gear can be a better choice for what they’re wanting to do
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This Memorial Day Weekend was brought to us by the Social Distancing Practices of 2020. I know none of us are living under a rock these days, so we obviously know that social distancing practices are in play for most states. The question is, which state practices what exactly. That makes things difficult. Especially because
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Social distancing has become the norm. Dining out is only a memory. But scuba diving is a great way to social distance because only a small percentage of people dive. Even fewer dive in cooler weather. That equals perfect Social Distancing. Today’s dive. Air temp started at 54 degrees F and 62 degrees F
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This is a newer phrase that has been introduced into our vocabulary. It seems like in a matter of weeks we went from life is normal to the new normal. The new normal, whatever that is. It’s been an interesting ride up to this point and will continue to be with the unknown. Wow, Elsa
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When diving in Cozumel it’s not always about eagle rays, turtles, moray eels, sharks, or even splendid toadfish. Sometimes it’s the littlest creatures. Those that we see and sometimes even photograph. Sometimes we don’t. Some of the smallest creatures can be amazing. Sometimes animals are overlooked not due to their size but due to being
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Or as we call in the SCUBA diving world, drift diving. If you have ever been to diving in Cozumel you’ve probably been drift diving. A very simple description would be, you jump into the ocean and the boat follows you and then picks you up when you are done. Sometimes you just slowly move
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Six o’clock already?!?! Just in the middle of a dream. We were diving Santa Rosa. But we got in on Cedral Reef. There’s my tribute to the Bangles. I hope they don’t hold it against me. We had a pretty manic Monday here in Cozumel. Manic for a dive trip to Cozumel that is. We
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